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• On Sewers in Cities
  5w ago · 9 min
  The nagging question that hangs over the head of anyone running or designing a mid-to-large-sized city is what to do if a character wants to head into the sewers?More
• Roster-Style Campaigns (Simplified Multi-Character Play for Faction-Based Campaigns in DCC)
  3mo ago · 6 min
  My working rules for a new style of faction-led campaign play that I am tentatively calling "Roster Play."More
• Detail is Debt: Making Your Favorite Settlement Map Gameable
  4mo ago · 4 min
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  Why you should avoid the temptation to map every square inch of your favorite fantasy city and instead lean into a lower-fidelity representation of it instead.More
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  • Around the Blogosphere in 80 Days (Blogwagon Roundup) · Prismatic Wasteland
  • Against Maps · AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
  • Shiny TTRPG links #266 · Seed of Worlds
• Running the League of Dark Few In Your Favorite Fantasy City
  4mo ago · 5 min
  So you took the pledge! Great, now you need to figure out which city your Vulgar Manse calls home. Luckily, the League of Dark Few has been designed to fit within most fantasy...
• Running a City, the Ultimate Sandbox
  5mo ago · 12 min
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  Following my article on running sandbox adventures, I share practical tips for running city-based campaigns. Often considered the hardest challenge for GMs, I share my prep...
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  • Shiny TTRPG links #261 · Seed of Worlds
• Cursed Scroll 6, the Best Yet?
  6mo ago · 8 min
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  I give my impression of Shadowdark's Cursed Scroll #6, and walk through how I would prep "The City of Masks" to run as a sandbox. More
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  • Shiny TTRPG links #260 · Seed of Worlds
• How Did Gary Think People Would Play D&D?
  6mo ago · 16 min
  I take a deep look at the article that inspired the Gygax '75 Challenge to understand how D&D's original creator viewed campaign design and world building.More
• How to Run a Sandbox Adventure
  6mo ago · 9 min
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  Many GMs find running sandbox-style games hard relative to the trad style of a plot-driven adventure or campaign. Which is really unfortunate because sandboxes should, in fact,...
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  • Shiny TTRPG links #257 · Seed of Worlds
• In Defense of Humor in Adventure Modules
  6mo ago · 5 min
  Why adventures don't need to be serious in order to be taken seriously.More
• The All New Revivify Games
  6mo ago · 4 min
  An apology for my silence as I launched this new site and a sneak peek at my Zine Quest project for this coming year "The League of Dark Few."More